And if you haven’t heard of it by now, go check it out: “The WDYTYA Drinking Game,” as described at Donna Pointkouski’s What’s Past Is Prologue. Best practiced in a group of giddy genealogists who are getting ready to watch the show/watching the show/chatting and calling in to GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio. Hic.

I have. He’s one of the Energizer Bunnies of genealogy blogging (and I’ll bet you know who the other two are). Wonder no more - he has written a great summary of what it means to him to be a genealogist at Genealogy’s Star: “Who do they think we are?” Love the shuffle board quote. (But, Mr. Tanner - not everyone who doesn’t like website reorganization is a Luddite - just sayin’.)

A wonderful response and elaboration of Kimberly’s points is provided by footnoteMaven in “It’s Not Going to Be as Easy as It Looks on TV.” She also reminds us that there is no need to forget civility in our exchanges, either, and this is a point that is becoming increasingly important in what is developing into an often animated, sometimes heated, and occasionally sarcastic and unkind exchange.

A lot of my research this week focused on three family family lines that lived in the Dallas County, Texas area and this has involved a lot of use of Genealogy Bank. I'm trying to be both efficient and effective: one newspaper/one family/one year at a time for each of the four newspapers, with an entry listing the newspaper name, date, and title of each article downloaded. Talk about time-consuming. And then, because the OCR process is not perfect, I may select a few time periods centered associated with important events in the family to browse the issues.

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Thanks for the mention Greta. It's add odd situation to be in, knowing the address but not the name. I since found another address from a few years earlier and still no luck in the 1900 census. I'm beginning to think they just are not in census. Hopefully other people will find my experience useful.

I have found quite a few newspaper articles in Genealogy Bank as well as Newspaper Archives and at the Henderson County Historical Museum (Athens, Texas) about my dad, Kermit Hollingsworth, as he was a Methodist minister up and down east Texas being raised in Fannin and Grayson Counties, going to college in Denton and Dallas Counties, and having churches in Cass (Linden), Henderson (Athens), Anderson (Palestine), Galveston (Galveston), and Harris (Houston) Counties in Texas. Also, thanks Greta and Lisa Alzo, for joining in the conversation with Myrt and me about my husband's uncle Joseph Jerkens (Jurkiewicz) during blogradio the other night. I have found some new leads as a result of our conversation. I will follow you now. Take care!

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Linda - It was great talking to you the other night! I have been surprised at the variety of articles I've found on ancestors in Genealogy Bank. Some are more mundane, but for the Brinlees, for example, I found articles on the crimes committed by some of them that had been hinted at by family lore.

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